Category: Random stuff

Want to have your check_mk notifiy you via XMPP / Jabber if something goes boom? Here’s a little Python notification script which does just that…

You’ll need sleekxmpp installed, either via pip install sleekxmpp  or apt-get install python3-sleekxmpp  if you’re running Ubuntu.

Next, just add the script to check_mk by placing it here: […]/share/check_mk/notifications/xmpp

#!/usr/bin/env python
# Send Notifications via XMPP

import sleekxmpp
import sys
import os
import logging
import time

class SendMsgBot(sleekxmpp.ClientXMPP):
    def __init__(self, jid, password, recipient, msg):
        super(SendMsgBot, self).__init__(jid, password)
        self.recipient = recipient
        logging.debug("Recipient: %s" % recipient)
        self.msg = msg
        logging.debug("Message: %s" % msg)
        self.add_event_handler('session_start', self.start)
        self.connect()
        self.process(threaded=False)

    def start(self, event):
        self.send_presence()
        self.get_roster()
        self.send_message(mto=self.recipient, mbody=self.msg)
        logging.debug("Message send")
        self.disconnect(wait=True)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    logging.basicConfig(filename='/tmp/notifications.log', format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)s:%(message)s', level=logging.ERROR)
    logging.debug("Start")
    message = os.environ["NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONTYPE"]+"\nHost: "+os.environ["NOTIFY_HOSTNAME"]+" - "+os.environ["NOTIFY_HOSTSTATE"]+"\nHost-Plugin-Output: "+os.environ["NOTIFY_HOSTOUTPUT"]+"\nService: "+os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICEDESC"]+" - "+os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICESTATE"]+"\nService-Plugin-Output:"+os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICEOUTPUT"]+"\n-------------------------\n\n"
    if os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICEDESC"] != '$SERVICEDESC$':
        message = "SERVICE"
    else:
        message = "HOST"
        message = message+"-"+os.environ["NOTIFY_NOTIFICATIONTYPE"]+"\n"+os.environ["NOTIFY_SHORTDATETIME"]+"\nHost: "+os.environ["NOTIFY_HOSTNAME"]+" - "+os.environ["NOTIFY_HOSTSTATE"]
    if os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICEDESC"] == '$SERVICEDESC$':
        message = message+"\nHost-Plugin-Output: "+os.environ["NOTIFY_HOSTOUTPUT"]
    else:
        message = message+"\nService: "+os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICEDESC"]+" - "+os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICESTATE"]+"\nService-Plugin-Output:"+os.environ["NOTIFY_SERVICEOUTPUT"]
        message = message+"\n-------------------------\n\n"
        logging.debug("%s" % message)
xmpp = SendMsgBot("[email protected]", "yourpassword" , os.environ["NOTIFY_PARAMETER_1"], message)

Now call the script with the destination ([email protected]) you want notified as custom parameter from within check_mk and give it a try by triggering some alert.

(Originally from here, but last time I checked indentation was broken and the site mostly down)

After spending the last couple hours trying to figure out why the event console wasn’t showing up in my manually upgraded OMD/check_mk install (that is OMD 1.2 w/ check_mk 1.2.4p5 upgraded to 1.2.6b10) even though mkeventd is running – here’s what you got to do: manually copy the files from your check_mk source directory into the install director. The setup script does everything else for your, except that.

cd ~
cd check_mk-1.2.6b10/mkeventd.src
rsync -av web/* ~/local/share/check_mk/web/
sending incremental file list
htdocs/
htdocs/mkeventd.py
htdocs/images/button_mkeventd_hi.png
htdocs/images/button_mkeventd_lo.png
htdocs/images/icon_ack.png
htdocs/images/icon_clear.png
htdocs/images/icon_counting.png
htdocs/images/icon_delayed.png
htdocs/images/icon_mkeventd.png
htdocs/images/icon_resetcounters.png
plugins/
plugins/config/
plugins/config/mkeventd.py
plugins/icons/
plugins/icons/mkeventd.py
plugins/sidebar/
plugins/sidebar/mkeventd.py
plugins/views/
plugins/views/mkeventd.py
plugins/visuals/
plugins/visuals/mkeventd.py
plugins/wato/
plugins/wato/mkeventd.py

sent 210,421 bytes received 346 bytes 421,534.00 bytes/sec
total size is 209,125 speedup is 0.99

That’s it. WATO should now show the event console again and things like rule based notification will also work.